The State of Online Porn

[Jace]

Originally Posted by gonzo

This could turn out to be a great discussion. Ill play devils advocate and maybe we can all brain storm a solution together.

Ill ask you both and anyone else that wants to chime in on this business problem.

Your brand new to this business and you have a pay site you want to get foot traffic to it so that potential buyers can turn into members.

You refuse to use any form of free site or promotion because it could potentially hurt your business.

How do you do it?

well, technically EVERY site is a free site, so you can't other than advertising offline

I guess I should have been specific for the thick heads.....when I say free site I mean sites that give away insane amounts of content for free

like:
rapidshare
shooshtime
torrent sites

this is sad times we are in right now in the online porn industry....the old timers have shot the newbies in the feet and are expecting them walk across the mine field

someone posted this on another board today

Seriously. This is getting to the fucked up stage.

I've been a full time affiliate for many years, earning substantially more than I did as a full time programmer, but it's getting to the stage where you're getting shafted by:

a) search engines - as soon as you are identified as an affiliate site, your domain is finished (times that by 300 sites at the moment all need a total revision / disposal).

b) program owners - no comment.

c) ppc companies. always a discrepancy of thousands of hits per week between supposed clicks, and affiliate program reporting. someone is lying.

d) general spyware / aff code swapping scum sucking pigs

So what is an affiliate supposed to do - create some bullshit review sites, hiding their shallow affiliate facade underneath a veneer of glossy front pages and naff caricateurs for the benefit or search engines? Policeman, I ask you....

Only a few conclusions:

- run your own programs so you can rip a new one for all and sundry like others do
- try to do different things on a weekly basis as an affiliate - for others to rip the idea within X weeks of doing each
- quit
- other

I seriously think the days of Affiliates making a living from this schiz are numbered.

So, what next...:Oh crap